Comments on: REVIEW: Right Behind You by Gail Giles

By: RK

RK — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:00:43 +0000

i think the same about the last part. I really didnt catch on to it for a second i was getting confused. But its one of my favorite books. Im doing a project on it for my English 2 class right now. Haha.

By: Randell

Randell — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:57:53 +0000

I really like this book althrough it slowed down at points. The only thing that i was not catching on to way the way sam said, “i’m here im right behind you.” Was that a good or bad im right behind you. plz explain

By: Lena R

Lena R — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:22:48 +0000

I absolutely loved this book, Just not the way it ended.
I think the end should have had more to it. Is there going to be a sequel?

By: g

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:28:13 +0000

you sed he spend 4 years at the juvenile facilaty buy he went there when he was nine and he came out when he was 14 so thts 5 years lol

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:29:07 +0000

trisha: Thanks for the recommendations! I do have Thirteen Reasons Why somewhere around here, probably buried on my overflowing review shelf.

By: trisha

trisha — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:21:04 +0000

Dead Girls Don't Write Letters! Oh, you have to review that one! It's my favorite of the three Giles books I've read. I agree that the weakest part of Right Behind You is the Texas portion. For me, I think it's partly that it didn't have a twist at the end like Cass McBride or Dead Girls so I was kinda disappointed. Still, Right Behind You is very easy to read. I thought I'd have a hard time getting into it because, hello, it's about a boy who killed someone. But it was actually very readable. And unlike other YA protagonists, he's got great parents. If you like Giles, you might also like Alex Flinn or A. M. Jenkins. Maybe Flinn's Beastly, which is not Giles-like, but does have a strong romance. For Jenkins, I think Damage is brilliant, though some people may be put off the by the fact that it's told in the second person. And, let's see, recs for a first person male POV... The first book that comes to mind is the awesome, mindblowingly good Boy Toy by Barry Lyga. Also The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Peeps by Scott Westerfeld, How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, Peak by Roland Smith, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Freak Show by James St. James... Okay, that's a lot of recs. If I had to pick just one, I'd go with Boy Toy. But, yeah, there are more YA books told from a female POV than male POV.

By: Jia

Jia — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:27:13 +0000

Keishon: This is the first Gail Giles I’ve ever read. I glanced at her backlist and I’m particularly interested in Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters.

Bonnie & jmc: Thanks for the recs.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:20:51 +0000

This sounds excellent! I’m taking a YA materials class for my master’s in library science program and I don’t remember seeing this book on the syllabus but I think I’ll have to bring it to the attention of my professor. Thanks for the recommendation!

By: jmc

jmc — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:02:22 +0000

I liked Tucker Shaw's Flavor of the Week. It's a YA version of Cyrano de Bergerac, similar in some ways to Anthony Capella's adult version, The Food of Love.

By: Bonnie Edwards

Bonnie Edwards — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:49:58 +0000

For another excellent YA with a male lead, you might try Exit Point, by Laura Langston, a wonderfully fresh-voiced writer.

It’s available at Amazon.

Bonnie